Alterations Quote by Barbara Kruger

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality…

— Susan Sontag

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is…

— Jean Baudrillard

... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred…

— Lev Manovich

Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often…

— Andreas Feininger

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens.…

— Lev Manovich

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

— Federico Fellini

In my work, there's mechanism that is "real," which is formed from the historical concepts of the images that I'm working with. That doesn't…

— Lorna Simpson

The practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself

— Ai Weiwei

When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

— Arnold Newman